nope no stripes here i'm going to take the whole step up pedestal section out of the boat and rebuild it all with new material maybe core in place of wood.

When do you plan on doing it? I'd like to see how you'll do it.Do you plan on keeping the existing storage areas? On ours that storage seems like a waste of space. When we tried taking the step up out all we could do was move it forward or backward. We couldn't turn it either, it was just stuck under the gunnels.